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Becoming Naomi León / Pam Muñoz Ryan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryan, Pam Muñoz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great-grandmothers--Fiction.
- Great-grandmothers.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Mexican Americans--Fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Mexico.
- Family problems--Fiction.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Press, 2005, ©2004.
- Summary:
- When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
- Contents:
- A rabble of yesterdays
- A paddling of ducks
- A skulk of foxes
- A lamentation of swans
- A memory of elephants
- A charm of hummingbirds
- A school of fish
- An unkindness of ravens
- A burden of mules
- A shiver of sharks
- A schizophrenia of hawks
- A flight of swallows
- A passel of todays
- A drey of squirrels
- A sleuth of bears
- A leap of leopards
- A piteousness of doves
- A team of horses
- An exaltation of starlings
- A pride of lions
- A cry of hounds
- A crash of hippopotami
- A brood of chicks
- A murmuration of tomorrows.
- Notes:
- ALA Notable Children's Book
- ALA Schneider Family Book Award, 2005
- Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book
- Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award, 2004
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0439269970
- 9780439269971
- 9780439856218
- 0439856213
- 9781415666159
- 1415666156
- OCLC:
- 64398837
- Publisher Number:
- 99990734115
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